Instruction Manual

60 Introduction
SONAR Basics
SONAR organizes the sound and music in your project into tracks, clips,
and events.
Tracks are used to store the sound or music made by each instrument or
voice in a project. For example, a song that is arranged for four instruments
and one vocalist may have 5 tracks—one for each instrument and one for
the vocals. Each project can have an unlimited number of tracks. Some of
these tracks may be used in your finished project, while others can hold
alternate takes, backup tracks, and variations that you might want to keep
for future use. Each track can be made up of one or many clips.
Clips are the pieces of sound and music that make up your tracks. A clip
might contain a horn solo, a drum break, a bass or guitar riff, a voice-over, a
sound effect like the hoot of an owl, or an entire keyboard performance. A
track can contain a single clip or dozens of different clips, and you can
easily move clips from one track to another.
Groove clips are audio clips which have tempo and pitch information
embedded within them, allowing them to follow changes to the project
tempo or project pitch. You can click on either edge of a Groove clip and
drag out repetitions in the track.
Events are MIDI data (in MIDI tracks) or automation data.
See:
SONAR File Types
Opening a File
Views
Working on a Project
SONAR File Types
Projects in SONAR can be saved as a project file with the extension .CWP or
as a Bundle file with the extension .
CWB.
For a complete description of the differences between project files and
bundle files, see the online help topic Project Files and Bundle Files.
Other Types of Files
SONAR lets you create and work with several other types of files, in
addition to project (.
CWP) and bundle (.CWB) files that store your projects: